Java Jobs in the UK excluding London

Java
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 28 20
Rank change year-on-year -1 -8 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 4,607 4,697 7,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.49% 7.79% 10.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.46% 19.45% 22.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,139 2,287 3,979
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,706 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.32% +9.05% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% +7.69%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22,515 24,145 32,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.73% 40.07% 46.16%
Number of salaries quoted 16,386 13,576 21,262
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £53,325
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +3.14% +6.65%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,244
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland +9 1,975 £60,000 -13.60% 90
South East -5 851 £60,000 -7.69% 123
North of England -21 657 £62,500 -3.85% 131
South West -7 611 £57,500 -4.17% 116
North West -10 459 £62,500 -6.02% 85
Midlands -50 275 £55,000 -8.33% 82
West Midlands -33 193 £57,000 -5.00% 58
Yorkshire -43 149 £65,465 +4.74% 34
East of England -85 106 £62,500 -10.71% 54
Wales +1 88 £50,000 -5.21% 11
East Midlands -70 81 £52,500 -8.70% 24
North East -45 49 £65,000 +4.00% 14
Northern Ireland -23 47 £85,000 +65.05% 34
Java
UK

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 537 (11.66%) Apache Spark
2 200 (4.34%) Apache
3 122 (2.65%) FileNet
4 54 (1.17%) Camunda
5 53 (1.15%) Confluence
6 46 (1.00%) JBoss
7 38 (0.82%) Tuxedo
8 36 (0.78%) nginx
9 35 (0.76%) OpenStack
10 34 (0.74%) IIS
10 34 (0.74%) WebSphere
11 33 (0.72%) Red Hat Fuse
12 32 (0.69%) Cloud Foundry
12 32 (0.69%) Tomcat
13 30 (0.65%) WebLogic
14 22 (0.48%) Captiva
15 21 (0.46%) GemFire
16 20 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
17 11 (0.24%) CICS
18 9 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 28 (0.61%) Simulink
2 23 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.17%) Adobe XD
6 6 (0.13%) CANalyzer
7 5 (0.11%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.087%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.022%) CATIA
9 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.15%) SAP ERP
2 6 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.087%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.087%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (0.087%) Sonata
5 3 (0.065%) Oracle Applications
5 3 (0.065%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.043%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.043%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.043%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.022%) iTrent
7 1 (0.022%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.022%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.022%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.022%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.022%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.022%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,912 (41.50%) AWS
2 912 (19.80%) Azure
3 396 (8.60%) Serverless
4 321 (6.97%) GCP
5 187 (4.06%) Amazon S3
6 179 (3.89%) SaaS
7 172 (3.73%) GitHub
8 165 (3.58%) IBM Cloud
9 155 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
9 155 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
10 152 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
11 137 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
12 126 (2.73%) OpenShift
13 123 (2.67%) Azure Functions
14 116 (2.52%) Azure API Management
15 115 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
15 115 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
16 105 (2.28%) Amazon SQS
17 102 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
18 86 (1.87%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 71 (1.54%) TCP/IP
2 66 (1.43%) DNS
3 57 (1.24%) HTTP
4 45 (0.98%) DHCP
5 38 (0.82%) Firewall
6 34 (0.74%) AMQP
7 29 (0.63%) WAN
8 20 (0.43%) Network Security
9 18 (0.39%) DSL
9 18 (0.39%) Internet
9 18 (0.39%) Modbus
10 17 (0.37%) Kerberos
11 14 (0.30%) SSH
12 13 (0.28%) SNMP
13 12 (0.26%) MQTT
13 12 (0.26%) Wireless
14 6 (0.13%) Bluetooth
14 6 (0.13%) Ethernet
14 6 (0.13%) VPN
15 5 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 845 (18.34%) NoSQL
2 473 (10.27%) Big Data
3 420 (9.12%) Relational Database
4 394 (8.55%) MongoDB
5 364 (7.90%) PostgreSQL
6 320 (6.95%) Hadoop
7 237 (5.14%) Elasticsearch
8 233 (5.06%) MySQL
9 200 (4.34%) SQL Server
10 159 (3.45%) DB2
11 156 (3.39%) Apache Cassandra
12 103 (2.24%) Oracle Database
13 90 (1.95%) Apache Hive
13 90 (1.95%) Data Lake
14 83 (1.80%) RDBMS
15 74 (1.61%) HBase
16 64 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
17 57 (1.24%) Redis
18 53 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
19 52 (1.13%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 472 (10.25%) Git
2 406 (8.81%) Jenkins
3 312 (6.77%) JUnit
4 174 (3.78%) Selenium
5 169 (3.67%) JIRA
6 165 (3.58%) GitLab
7 139 (3.02%) Maven
8 121 (2.63%) Cucumber
8 121 (2.63%) Cypress.io
9 108 (2.34%) Jasmine
10 88 (1.91%) WebDriver
11 78 (1.69%) Mockito
12 70 (1.52%) Visual Studio
13 69 (1.50%) Gradle
14 65 (1.41%) Protractor
15 62 (1.35%) Bitbucket Server
16 61 (1.32%) IntelliJ
17 60 (1.30%) JMeter
17 60 (1.30%) Karma Test Runner
18 50 (1.09%) Postman
General
1 2,072 (44.98%) Finance
2 1,860 (40.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,699 (36.88%) Law
4 798 (17.32%) Marketing
5 700 (15.19%) Social Skills
6 526 (11.42%) Legal
7 500 (10.85%) Banking
8 350 (7.60%) Public Sector
9 261 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
10 257 (5.58%) Investment Banking
11 187 (4.06%) Influencing Skills
12 165 (3.58%) Financial Institution
13 95 (2.06%) Aerospace
14 76 (1.65%) Private Banking
15 66 (1.43%) Retail
16 57 (1.24%) Electronics
17 52 (1.13%) Telecoms
18 46 (1.00%) Manufacturing
19 43 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
20 42 (0.91%) Games
Job Titles
1 2,212 (48.01%) Software Engineer
2 1,110 (24.09%) Developer
3 1,085 (23.55%) Java Engineer
4 979 (21.25%) Java Software Engineer
5 875 (18.99%) Lead
6 837 (18.17%) Senior
7 536 (11.63%) Lead Software Engineer
8 442 (9.59%) Java Developer
9 389 (8.44%) Full Stack Engineer
10 350 (7.60%) Senior Software Engineer
11 315 (6.84%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 299 (6.49%) Lead Java Engineer
13 259 (5.62%) Big Data Engineer
14 255 (5.54%) Big Data Software Engineer
15 228 (4.95%) Scala Engineer
15 228 (4.95%) Scala Software Engineer
16 223 (4.84%) Full Stack Developer
17 217 (4.71%) Senior Developer
18 205 (4.45%) AWS Engineer
19 204 (4.43%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,254 (27.22%) Spring
2 997 (21.64%) React
3 788 (17.10%) AngularJS
4 705 (15.30%) Spring Boot
5 607 (13.18%) Node.js
6 576 (12.50%) HTML
7 546 (11.85%) REST
8 529 (11.48%) Kafka
9 518 (11.24%) CSS
10 357 (7.75%) .NET
11 353 (7.66%) Web Services
12 333 (7.23%) Hibernate
13 326 (7.08%) RESTful
14 325 (7.05%) J2EE
15 303 (6.58%) jQuery
16 292 (6.34%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 279 (6.06%) JSON
18 179 (3.89%) Vue
19 176 (3.82%) JMS
20 171 (3.71%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 773 (16.78%) Algorithms
2 668 (14.50%) Cloud Native
3 290 (6.29%) Public Cloud
4 276 (5.99%) Data Structures
5 171 (3.71%) Blockchain
6 161 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 150 (3.26%) Private Cloud
8 147 (3.19%) Onboarding
9 121 (2.63%) Product Ownership
10 105 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
11 97 (2.11%) Management Information System
12 96 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
13 92 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
14 67 (1.45%) Distributed Applications
15 64 (1.39%) Reference Data
16 47 (1.02%) e-Learning
17 44 (0.96%) Credit Risk
17 44 (0.96%) IoT
17 44 (0.96%) Legacy Code
18 42 (0.91%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 741 (16.08%) Linux
2 361 (7.84%) Windows
3 222 (4.82%) Unix
4 194 (4.21%) Android
5 162 (3.52%) Apple iOS
6 99 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 43 (0.93%) CentOS
8 42 (0.91%) Ubuntu
9 29 (0.63%) Windows Server
10 28 (0.61%) Debian
11 26 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
12 21 (0.46%) AIX
13 8 (0.17%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.11%) Mac OS X
14 5 (0.11%) VMS
15 4 (0.087%) Windows 10
16 3 (0.065%) FreeBSD
16 3 (0.065%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.065%) Solaris
17 2 (0.043%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,769 (60.10%) Software Engineering
2 2,745 (59.58%) Agile
3 1,783 (38.70%) CI/CD
4 1,713 (37.18%) SDLC
5 1,341 (29.11%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,303 (28.28%) Operational Stability
7 1,170 (25.40%) Machine Learning
8 963 (20.90%) Microservices
9 938 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
10 834 (18.10%) Community of Practice
11 820 (17.80%) Full Stack Development
12 771 (16.74%) DevOps
13 683 (14.83%) Continuous Improvement
14 617 (13.39%) Visualisation
15 574 (12.46%) Mentoring
16 543 (11.79%) TDD
17 542 (11.76%) Risk Management
18 529 (11.48%) Decision-Making
19 511 (11.09%) Test Automation
20 505 (10.96%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,734 (37.64%) SQL
2 1,628 (35.34%) Python
3 1,105 (23.99%) JavaScript
4 609 (13.22%) C#
5 420 (9.12%) TypeScript
6 415 (9.01%) Scala
7 296 (6.43%) C++
8 253 (5.49%) C
9 184 (3.99%) Go
10 159 (3.45%) PL/SQL
11 138 (3.00%) Bash
12 130 (2.82%) Ruby
13 119 (2.58%) Kotlin
14 109 (2.37%) PowerShell
14 109 (2.37%) Shell Script
15 94 (2.04%) PHP
16 58 (1.26%) Perl
17 54 (1.17%) COBOL
18 52 (1.13%) T-SQL
19 51 (1.11%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 654 (14.20%) Security Cleared
2 500 (10.85%) Degree
3 408 (8.86%) SC Cleared
4 230 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 148 (3.21%) DV Cleared
6 75 (1.63%) Master's Degree
7 61 (1.32%) PhD
8 56 (1.22%) AWS Certification
9 31 (0.67%) Azure Certification
10 18 (0.39%) DBS Check
11 16 (0.35%) HNC
12 14 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.20%) PMI Certification
14 8 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 8 (0.17%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.13%) SANS
17 5 (0.11%) CISA
17 5 (0.11%) CISM
17 5 (0.11%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (3.95%) QA
2 83 (1.80%) SLA
3 64 (1.39%) Data Quality
4 37 (0.80%) GDPR
5 23 (0.50%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.13%) ISO 26262
6 6 (0.13%) ISO 9001
6 6 (0.13%) NIST
6 6 (0.13%) SEPA
6 6 (0.13%) TickIT
7 5 (0.11%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.087%) COBIT
9 2 (0.043%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.043%) IEC 61508
9 2 (0.043%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.022%) AQAP
10 1 (0.022%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.022%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.022%) ITGC
10 1 (0.022%) PMO
System Software
1 599 (13.00%) Docker
2 75 (1.63%) HDFS
3 72 (1.56%) Hyper-V
4 52 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 26 (0.56%) VMware NSX
6 21 (0.46%) Firmware
7 19 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
8 18 (0.39%) Active Directory
9 11 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
10 9 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
10 9 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
11 8 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.065%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.043%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 1 (0.022%) Dovecot
14 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.022%) Postfix
14 1 (0.022%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 759 (16.47%) Kubernetes
2 402 (8.73%) Terraform
3 185 (4.02%) Ansible
4 160 (3.47%) Grafana
5 88 (1.91%) Puppet
6 59 (1.28%) Prometheus
7 38 (0.82%) Kibana
8 37 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
9 29 (0.63%) OpenSSO
10 26 (0.56%) ITRS Geneos
11 21 (0.46%) HAProxy
11 21 (0.46%) Zipkin
12 20 (0.43%) Progress Chef
13 13 (0.28%) WMI
14 7 (0.15%) Graphite
15 5 (0.11%) Argo
15 5 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.11%) Opsgenie
15 5 (0.11%) Podman
16 3 (0.065%) Packer
Vendors
1 696 (15.11%) Oracle
2 237 (5.14%) Red Hat
3 208 (4.51%) IBM
4 197 (4.28%) Google
5 193 (4.19%) Microsoft
6 171 (3.71%) Splunk
7 152 (3.30%) Databricks
8 140 (3.04%) Dynatrace
9 79 (1.71%) VMware
10 75 (1.63%) Cloudera
11 62 (1.35%) Informatica
12 57 (1.24%) Alteryx
13 52 (1.13%) SAP
14 50 (1.09%) SaltStack
15 44 (0.96%) Pega
16 43 (0.93%) Micro Focus
17 35 (0.76%) Remedy
17 35 (0.76%) WSO2
18 32 (0.69%) Sybase
19 31 (0.67%) Salesforce